Favourite Feature is the Vegetable Garden - Strathcona County Garden Tour

Now back in Sherwood Park, we had two destinations left to visit, both of them urban lots. This particular garden featured some art by one of the owner's friends (see the yellow dancers and canvas on the fence). What I enjoyed the most, besides the wonderful shade trees and a hammock that looked incredibly inviting...oh and a hot tub (this garden's water feature?), was the garden of raised vegetable beds.  Through a rose covered arbor, one enters upon the vegetable garden, walking paths between the beds are lined with landscape fabric to reduce the need for weeding and keeping feet mud free.

Through a rose covered arbor, one enters upon the vegetable garden where walking paths between the beds are lined with landscape fabric to reduce the need for weeding while keeping feet mud free.

This gardener also composts.

So inviting after touring so many gardens in a day...

 Anyone want to join the yellow dancing ladies with parasols?

There's one more garden to go.....

Hope for Harvest Referral

For all you vegetable gardeners out there, I came across a terrific and informative post about problems in the vegetable garden including rust, blossom end rot and more.  Check out The Sage Butterfly for her timely post!  It's a good one!!

Did You Know? 4/30/11

Did You Know?

Few plants are salt-tolerant but beets and squash are two of the most salt-tolerant vegetables.

Beans and carrots are two vegetables that are salt-sensitive.

Vegetable Gardening in Containers

There's a huge trend towards vegetable gardening this year.  Not everyone has the yard to do it so why not try it in containers?  Rob Sproule, Salisbury Greenhouse, discusses in this video how you can grow vegetables, even zucchini, in containers in full sun.